ETHICS

When I last checked in on James Dobson (earlier this year), the conservative patriarch was leaving Focus on the Family's radio show, his last connection to the evangelical organization he founded a generation ago. The changing of the guard at the Colorado Springs-based ministry, to new...

In coming months, you'll probably hear a lot more about President Barack Obama's support for a Muslim group that seeks to build an Islamic center near the site of the World Trade Center that was leveled in the September, 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. And Republicans will likely use...

Focus on the Family's workforce is now about half the size it was in 2002, when most of President George W. Bush's years in the White House were still in front of him. The Colorado Springs-based evangelical organization has laid off 110 workers in its latest round of cuts,...

More than two decades ago, evangelical pastor Ted Haggard began New Life Church in his Colorado Springs home. It grew to 14,000 people, moving into a massive complex before Haggard left in disgrace after he was outed in a nationally resounding scandal involving prostitution and drugs. Now...

Are you tired of Ted Haggard or do you feel closer to him than ever? For Vanity Fair's blog, the answer is clearly the former: "Ugh, sanctimonious (former!) meth fiend Ted Haggard, the inventor of Colorado's New Life Church who stepped down in 2006 following a gay-prostitution/drugs scandal...

The last time we checked in on Ted Haggard, the disgraced pastor and exiled founder of Colorado Springs' New Life megachurch, he had quietly created a church dubbed St. James. Yesterday, he tweeted a curious message on his Twitter account, "Gayle and I are taking the next step," he...

If you're losing count of the number of Catholic priests who have worked in Colorado churches and been implicated in a sex-abuse case this year, the answer is three. Seventy-five-year-old Father Dorino DeLazzer, who in 2005 retired as pastor of Sacred Heart of Mary Church in Boulder, has...

Ted Haggard, the founder and disgraced former pastor of Colorado Springs' New Life megachurch, continues to build his own new life. While there are hundreds of church incorporations in the Springs, a new one last week by Haggard and his wife, Gayle, did not go unnoticed. Using their home...

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Johnson & Wales students, all baking and pastry arts majors, competed in the Gingerbread Takeover from December 6–8. Final judging took place on Thursday in the lobby of the Sheraton Downtown Denver hotel. All photos by Sarah Boyum

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The American Society of Interior Designers' (ASID) Colorado Chapter decorated the Governor's Residence for the holidays. Holiday tours, free and open to the public, will take place December 8-11 and December 15-18 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. All photos by Sarah Boyum